Concert
ROMEO POIRIER + KRISTINA WARREN

Site-specific experimental music performances

Fri, 11/08/2024
8:00 PM Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Goethe-Institut Boston, Non-Event, the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, the Consulate General of France in Boston, and Villa Albertine are pleased to present a pair of site-responsive solo performances by Roméo Poirier (Fr/Be) and Kristina Warren (US).
 

Taking place in the Great Engines Hall of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, the performances will offer an exploration of soundscapes where nostalgia meets experimentation, while encouraging attentive collective listening. The audience will beinvited to engage deeply with the music, enjoying sonic innovation and meticulousorchestration.

Roméo Poirier is a French electronic musician, who creates highly-textured, hybrid digital-analog sound collages. He has released albums on the London based record label Kit Records (Plage Arrière), the mancunian label Sferic (Hotel Nota), and Jan Jelinek’s  Berlin based imprint Faitiche (Living Room), transforming the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.

Kristina Warren is a sound artist, composer, performer, and instrument builder based on Wampanoag and Narragansett land also known as Providence, Rhode Island [US]. Both in solo projects and in collaborative work including curating, Warren believes that collective listening is a precious and political act. Warren uses self-designed and received audio tools to create performances, installations, and recorded works, whose recent “ASMR drone” style uses quieter volumes and careful orchestrations to help audiences perceive their own listening.

Doors open at 7:30 pm
Concert starts at 8pm